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With his great political power Curley could easily have been a wealthy man, but he died relatively poor from giving more than he should to those in need. Except for Mayor Daley of Chicago, there has never been anyone like...
...whose residents blamed Bilandic for a transit authority decision to eliminate several passenger stops so as to serve outlying white areas better. Many residents were also angry at Bilandic's having outmaneuvered black Alderman Wilson Frost, the council's senior member, for the temporary appointment to succeed Daley...
...suburban Lake Forest, then married a Marine Corps pilot. A 1959 crash left her widowed with an 18-month-old daughter, and she plunged into politics. Her first hero was Jack Kennedy. She became secretary-treasurer of his Chicago Citizens Committee, and she worked so hard that even Mayor Daley heard about her. He became her second hero...
...Daley took Byrne into city hall, at first giving her a minor poverty program post. But when he made her part of his cabinet as commissioner of consumer sales in 1968, she found a natural niche. Even in a city noted for its corruption, she was outraged by evidence of wrongdoing. She scolded butchers who peddled poor meat as high-grade cuts and auto repairmen who faked car ailments. But sometimes she went too far. In 1976, when she complained about the "disheveled appearance" of the city's cabbies and ordered them to wear uniforms, they just laughed...
...Byrne gained popularity, Daley appointed her a national Democratic committeewoman. When her mentor suffered a stroke in 1974, she loyally lashed out at those "little men of greed" and "political vultures" who seemed too eager to succeed him. Daley recovered and rewarded Byrne by making her his co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic central committee. She had no illusion of really sharing power with Daley and knew he was mainly meeting national Democratic pressure to upgrade the role of women. But those "little men" at city hall resented her and when Daley died in late 1976, they knocked...